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India's Power Network Breaks Down

Second Blackout This Week Affects Area Where 680 Million Live, Embarrassing Nation by Exposing Ramshackle Grid

Much of India's electricity supply network collapsed Tuesday in the country's second major outage in two days, affecting more than 680 million people-double the population of the U.S.-and causing business losses estimated to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Amol Sharma has details on The News Hub from New Delhi.

The grid failure, the second massive blackout in as many days, happened around 1 p.m. local time and affected 18 states and two union territories in north and eastern India, grinding trains across large swaths of the country to a halt, forcing thousands of hospitals and factories to operate on generators,...